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He'll try, but Trump can't stop the clean energy revolution (grist.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The cost of renewables is plummeting, heat pumps are selling like crazy, and red states are raking in cash from the IRA. There's no stopping the inevitable.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

AI boom and Cryptocoin mining will eat up all the spare energy.

We are fucked.

Unless AI and Crypto crash soon. Which maybe even Trump/Elon/Peter Thiel cannot prevent. As I've said before: presidents do not control the economy. Things will crash when they want to crash....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some sense to this - global emissions probably just peaked because China's housing bubble burst - responsible for much more CO2 than AI/crypto, and even a communist government can't effectively control such crashes. So no, we are not f****d, but not always saved for noble reasons.
Also regarding crypto - how much of that was sustained by russians evading sanctions - which new team in US is likely to remove ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So no, we are not f****d, but not always saved for noble reasons.

Yeah, this statement here is likely closer to the truth than what I wrote earlier.

Also regarding crypto - how much of that was sustained by russians evading sanctions - which new team in US is likely to remove ?

Hmmm.

Non noble reasons ehhhh? Does Team Trump really want to open free trade with Russia? That really goes against his platform of isolationist racists.

I know Elon Musk wants trade with Russia for that Lithium, Aluminum and Titanium. But Trump also cannot look weak.

Elon will have huge influence (he did appear in the Ukrainian x Trump talk after all). But officially I don't think I've seen anything suggesting Elon Musk influence over foreign policy.